Friday, July 12, 2013

UAE Announces First Case of MERS Virus Infection

This is not the first case in the UAE. My information shows a 73yo reported in March 2013.

Date Report:3/26/13 – 17 Total Confirmed, 11 Deaths

Name:73yo

From:United
Arab Emirates

Onset:3/14

Adm:3/19Munich Klinikum Schwabing Hospital
Flown from UAE

in private Jet,on day 11 of illness

Confirmation:3/23/13

DOD:3/25/13

Note:Died on
day 18 of illness. 50 people being monitored medically.Unchanged.

The full virus genome was combined with four other available
full genome sequences in a maximum likelihood phylogeny, correlating branch
lengths with dates of isolation. The time of the common ancestor was halfway
through 2011. Addition of novel genome data from an unlinked case treated 6
months previously in Essen, Germany, showed a clustering of viruses derived
from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The Emirati citizen, who contracted the SARS-like virus, suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health authority said in a statement carried by WAM state news agency late Thursday.

The authority said that this was the first case to be diagnosed in the UAE, Ahramonline reported.

In May, France said a 65-year-old man was in hospital after being diagnosed with the coronavirus after a holiday in Dubai. But the UAE health ministry said at the time no cases of the virus had been recorded in the country.